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Chat Applet with Specific Features Needed...

I am the host of my own online games (http://gcsonlinegaming.tripod.com/) and I need a chat applet for my players to communicate in real time with each other. However, I do not want the players to be able to communicate with each other outside of the message boards and the chat room. On my MB, I have a Private Messaging feature to allow for private conversations, but I can still monitor them. However, I cannot find a chat applet that suits my needs correctly. These are the features I am looking for:

NO Private Messaging Allowed (In order to keep them from exchanging e-mail addresses, IM names, etc.)

Admin-Only Registration (Players will need a username and password, but they will not be able to create accounts, they will be set up beforehand)

Chat Logging (It is too much of a pain to keep putting the chat up and taking the chat down on the site (it is a Tripod site), so a log would be nice so I could keep track of what was said (either in an HTML file or a text file))

Voice Control (Admin can control who can and cannot speak (only necessary when he is present in the room))

Multiple Rooms/Password Protected Rooms (This isn't really necessary, it would just be a nice thing to have so that players could have private conversations from other players, and more than one could be occuring at a time

I can probably guess that an applet doesn't exist that does all of this, so I was wondering how hard it would be to code something like this. I currently have almost no knowledge of programming, but I am learning C++ this year in school (if that would help me at all). Thanks for any advice you can give me.

This sounds like something that you are either going to have to write or you are going to have to have someone write. I don't think that you are going to be able to find a chat applet out there that meets all of your needs. While your C++ experience may help you a little, it is probably going to be a good idea to start learning java. If you are interested in outsourcing this work to someone else, I could recommend a couple of people that could have this done for you in a very short amount of time.

I knew that I would probably have to write this myself, so I asked my C++ teacher (also the Java teacher at our school), what she would recommend for me to start out with. She said that she would get me a copy of the Java text that is used for the class so I could begin to look over that. At least that's a start. And I wouldn't mind about the outsourcing idea (in fact I even thought about it for a while), but I am only 15 years old and don't have a way to pay anyone for their work. And for some reason I doubt that there's a place where people would make custom java applets for free .

Well then, this is quite a task for you to undertake. Writing a chat client when you have no previous experience in java will be pretty difficult. In fact, writing a chat client at all can be pretty difficult. If you need any help regarding your work in this area I would be happy to look over some code for you, or lend a hand where needed. I will try to get a hold of you on AIM if I ever see you pop on and I will exchange some contact info with you.